their Councils abridged. 2 3 i they be found no wifer than other Men,and their Infallibility be proved lets at hand, than at a diftance, where they hear not the.Debates. Here Adrian. to theEm refs relateth the forefaid Vifionof Congamine Mag. tobe healedof hisLeprofie, a Fable fit to introduce Image-worfhip ; and for an Infallible Pope to ilk, fully confuted ( as aforefaid ) by Henry Fowlis ( after many others) of PopifhTreafons. § 66. rharafius pkofefì-ethhis contnt to Adrian's Letters, yet, profeffeth, [That hegiveth theWorfhip called Latria to God alone, and placeth his belief Crab. p. en him alone.] Contrary to Aquinas and his Followers, and other fùch Ro- -485; man Donors. And the whole Council ecchoed their content, and voted for Images ; fo much can one Woman do in Power. § 67. _ In the 3dAnion, Gregory Bifhop of Neo-Ceefarea is to receive his Abfolution fully, and Th erafeus puts in an Objenion, that it's faid that fome Bifhops in the late Perfecution did fcourge diffentingBithops, and fiich were not to be received : But Gregory protefted that he fcourged none. But he is accufed by 'others, to have been a Leader of the laft Council againft Ima- ges, and fo he is deferred. And the Epiftle of Tharafius to the Eaftern Pa- triarchs is read, (and their Anfwers ;) in which it is to be noted, that yet Image-worthip was not owned: For heprofeffeth in his Creed to them, that [ We admit Pilluresfor no other ufe, butthat they may the more perthily be exhibited to the fight and eyes ; as the Lamb of God that taketh away . thefins of the World, &c.] And the 4thA&ion containing all their Proofs from Scripture . and Fä- thers, pleadbut for the memorative and inftruning ufe of Images, by which they are to the eye,,what wordsare to the ear : But they thould have con fidered the danger of abufe,and forefeen how much further they were like. to be carried, as with thePapifls they are. And in the fifth Anion they proceed in reading more, to the fame purpofe, for commemorative Images; till one read the Itinerary of the .Apofiles,which they voted to be..a: turfed Book, and faid it was that Book that the Synod agamftItnages made ufe of : whereuponGreg.Nee-Ceef Theodof.Amorü,are asked whether that Book was read iii, the. falle. Synod, and they fware by God, that it was not, butonly fome recited words as out of it. Pretoria's a. Nobleman faid, [ But they didall by the Royal Procuration.] And they . proceed to retell the Teftimonies that were brought againft Images. Cofmas Gubicularius brought out anOld Teftament with Scholia blotted out, where was yet legible on the fecond Commandment, " [ If we make the Image of "CbriFt, trulywe do not for the fimilitude adore it, but that the mind might "be railed Upward bywhat is teen. ] The. Expunnion was faid. by Tara- !iris to be doneby his Predeceffors, Anafiafsus, Conftantine, Via`ior, all Here ticks.. And here they curled Concealers andCancellers of Writings: (Wo then to Rome !) Other rated Books were read, and Curfes added againft the .Adverfaries of Images, and thofe that communicate with them. . §'68. In the 6th Anion,thewords of the 7th Council. againft Itpages are btought:forth maBook with a Confutationof them,which the,Reáder that hatn
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